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California Contest Heats Up

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Jim Carlton

Updated Sept. 30, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Democrat Barbara Boxer, in her second debate with Carly Fiorina in the California Senate race, attacked the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive for exporting American jobs overseas, while the Republican challenger accused her rival of following policies that worsened the state's economy.

"She laid off 30,000 workers, shipped their jobs to China, India, Malaysia," Ms. Boxer said in the hour-long forum Wednesday aired by public radio station KPCC in Pasadena, Calif. "She is still supporting tax breaks to...